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Vivian Tucker and Coldharbour children, c.1940

Outside one of the Coldharbour,cottages, Bridgetown, in the early part of the 1940s are (left) Arthur Fouracre, who lived at No. 5; standing at back, Vivian Tucker, who lived at No. 9; front, with back to camera, John Knott, who lived at No. 3; Tryphena Screech, who lived at No. 4 Coldharbour. This (and other images of Coldharbour) clearly shows the 'segmental arched doorway' of cottages 3 to 10, recorded in the English Heritage (later Historic England) listing. (Cottage No. 2, in contrast, at the end of the terrace, had a 'gabled stone porch approached by stem'.) Vivian Tucker was born on 23 October 1930, according to the 1939 Register England & Wales; she appears to be about ten years old in this photograph, so dating it to maybe around 1940. In 1955, she is recorded as Yum Yum in The Mikado, that played at the Barn Theatre, Dartington, in April that year. The programme is shown in image JR 0051. She is shown playing Josephine in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore in image JR 0044. She married John O. Rymes at Totnes in 1957. Lent for scanning by Mrs Chadwick